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Genetics - Coggle Diagram
Genetics
Relationships
relationship between parents and child
child being the product of the parents
"My father's in my fingers, but my mother's in my palms."
end stopping line
statement
Both parents being important in a child's life
repeated throughout poem
constant reminder of parents's role in child's life
"I shape a chapel where a steeple stands."
marriage
imagining harmony
"My body is their marriage register."
embodiment of marriage
relationship continuing onto the next generation
"I'll bequeath my fingers, if you bequeath your palms."
passing down the genes
repeating what the parents previously did
use of anaphora
poem written as a villanelle
symbol of marriage or of genetics
relationship between parents
relationship being divided
"They may have been repelled to separate lands"
"repelled"
unhappy marriage leading to divorce
"With nothing left of their togetherness but friends / who quarry for their image by a river"
"river"
metaphor for division
enjambment
continuous / still divided
Identity
Persona getting identity from parents
"I know my parents made me by my hand."
end stopping line
reflective lines of parents
"We know our parents make us by our hands."
new identity
wants to have children
change in argument / focus
Marriage forming identity
"I shape a chapel where a steeple stands."
imagining harmony
childhood rhyme
can't lose identity
"my father's by my fingers, my mother's by my palms / demure before a priest reciting psalms"
partial parallelism
enjambment
recurring dream for persona
parents bonded as one / merging of identities
"I re-enact their wedding with my hands"
retelling history
holds only proof of marriage